My Ipod Mini seems to be "forgetful"

Well, i bought a 4gb iPod Mini on August 3, 2005, i've got about 617 songs on it, and i use it on a daily basis. Everything has been fine with it, but this week i've noticed that it's "forgetting" everything that i change on it on my computer [windows XP]. For example, i plugged my ipod into my computer and added a group of songs to it, on my computer it showed that the songs were there, so then i [correctly] disconnected my ipod and then checked for the songs and they weren't there.
I tried this a few times, just to make sure i was doing everything right, and then i tried deleting a song from my ipod... once again, after i disconnected my ipod [correctly] it was as if i hadn't done anything at all, the song i'd deleted was still there [though it wouldn't play] I don't know what this could be a problem with though.
Also, please note that earlier this week i was on a vacation with my sister and had to use her laptop to charge and handle my ipod, whenever i connected it to her laptop, it wouldn't let me disconnect it properly because it said that some of it's files were still in use by the computer, so i'd have to disconnect it even though it still read "DO NOT DISCONNECT", i'm not sure if that would have much to do with the problem though. anyway, any and all help would be greatly appreciated! thanks so much and sorry this was so long!
~Brittany

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